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White House Quietly Leaves Us More Vulnerable to Missile Threats
Pentagon ratchets back estimate of how many counter-ballistic missile defense ships Navy can field.

by James Jay Carafano
September 3, 2015 - 10:45 am
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While our president gets ready to push through his questionable nuclear deal with Iran, the Pentagon is acknowledging an inconvenient truth. The administration will field less of a ballistic-missile killing seaborne fleet than it promised Congress just a few months ago.

“Instead of 48 ‘BMD [ballistic missile defense] capable ships’ the MDA [Missile Defense Agency] estimated the U.S. would have by FY [fiscal year] 2020, the force will be instead 39 ‘BMD deployable ships’ — a difference of nine ships,” reports Sam LaGrone, the editor of USNI News.

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